hayk simonyan

- Led a 5 person front-end team building a mobile and web banking platform for a major bank, using React, Redux, and a Node.js backend-for-frontend layer with dedicated services (e.g., PDF generation); conducted code reviews and mentored team members
- Served as one of 10 front-end developers (within a cross-functional team of 30+, including QA, backend, and PM) contributing to architecture and te

- Took over a legacy React application containing 8 games in a single, unmaintained ~15,000-line file; made the call to rebuild individual games from scratch rather than extend the unstable codebase
- Interviewed and hired 2 front-end developers; mentored and managed the growing team, conducting code reviews and sharing development techniques
- Led the team to release 3 standalone games under the

- Taught JavaScript fundamentals and best practices to aspiring developers

Worked as Senior React/JavaScript Developer at SFL - We Do Software ! (acquired by DataArt).

- Built and maintained multiple admin panels and a customer-facing website within a 3-person front-end team, using React, Redux, and Redux Saga
- Implemented UI with both Material Design and Ant Design component libraries, balancing design-system consistency across projects
- Conducted code reviews and mentored front-end team members

- Made a personal career transition from PHP to front-end development with React
- Built an admin panel using Ant Design Pro
- Developed 3 real-time betting games using WebSockets for live data communication
- Conducted code reviews and mentored team members

- Served as team lead on 2 projects for US-based clients, managing the team and conducting PR code reviews
- Built an event queue management application, helping organizers manage attendee queues during live events
- Built an Android and web application allowing parents to monitor and control their child's device usage

- Worked as a PHP developer building projects from scratch using Zend Framework, Laravel, and Symfony
- Wrote automated tests with PHPUnit; worked with MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch
- Used Composer, Gulp, and Grunt for dependency management and build automation; developed in a Vagrant/VirtualBox environment on Linux (Ubuntu), debugging with XDebug in PHPStorm
-Worked with Git and SVN fo

- Built 3 WordPress-based sites from scratch, handling both front-end markup and back-end development, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, and MySQL

- Implemented several widget customizations on an ongoing project

- First professional role in web development; learned core web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, and WordPress

- Worked on an ongoing WordPress-based project